Watching this classic set run on your layout brought back a little flood of very pleasant memories. Back in the early 1950s, each fall when school had been in session a month or so, we boys would skip the school bus ride home and walk so that we could stop at the hardware store every afternoon to see if the new Lionel catalogs had arrived yet. Finally they came, and I remember the excitement I felt when I opened the pages and first saw the beautiful Santa Fe and New York Central F-3s! We were too poor for Santa Claus to bring me a set, but a few of my friends were lucky enough to have them. We lived on the West Coast, so I never saw the gray NYC diesels except in the catalogs. One of the neighbor kids got a set of the war bonnets for Christmas, so I got to see those red and silver beauties race around his track pulling a consist of silver 2500 series Lionel Lines cars. What a thrill! Now I have several sets of the original 2344 war bonnets plus later reproductions and scale MTH renditions. I never get tired of running them or just looking at them. One day at an auction I was able to pick up the same classic NYC F-3s you have in a Lionel commemorative set with an unpowered B unit. Even though I've tried to restrict my motive power collection to Western railroads, there are some irresistable Eastern road classics that I just couldn't pass up, including the NYC F-3s and the Pennsy GG-1 in Tuscan red pulling the matching Madison heavyweights. Thanks for sharing your separate finds of the NYC F-3s. Lionel sold a lot more of the Santa Fe variants, I suppose because of the more spectacular paint scheme, but the gray and white lightning bolts are more subtle and dignified classics that every nostalgic collection should have. Congratulations on yours.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
Thank you so much…I don’t know what else to say?
@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars
6 ай бұрын
I like that F3 and dummy unit
@TwistedMacGyversTrains
6 ай бұрын
Congratulations Mike on completing your NYC F3’s! They look amazing! Love it!👍😊
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
If you can complete your boxcar collection, I can do the same completing my F3 set Frank ;)
@TwistedMacGyversTrains
6 ай бұрын
You are completely right my friend! She sure looks beautiful Mike! 💯👍
@chiconian49
6 ай бұрын
They are a great pair. They complement each other.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
Like Bonnie and Clyde
@davidstevens9002
6 ай бұрын
Great looking set Mike. Congratulations.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
Much obliged David
@Ed-ICE-Berg
6 ай бұрын
That’s a beautiful engine Mike - glad you were able to complete your set!
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
Thanks E.I.B
@stevesoscaletrainchannel.1901
4 ай бұрын
What a very nice pair, great video.
@railchief74
4 ай бұрын
Thank you Steve
@hamzagurses9158
4 ай бұрын
I always like your videoa
@therosejewelrailroad489
6 ай бұрын
There is a b unit for that set. That would complete the set.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
There was no B unit that came with this variation of the set
@therosejewelrailroad489
6 ай бұрын
@@railchief74 sure there was. It’s in the 1950 catalog as an add on. It’s number 2344C. I got 2 of them. One of them should be on my older videos.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
@@therosejewelrailroad489 no there wasn’t. For the original 1950s version yes. But not for this one. This reproduction set never came with a B unit. This set is based off of the 1948 set
@therosejewelrailroad489
6 ай бұрын
@@railchief74ohh I didn’t realize it was a reproduction. In that case. The original 2344 set was produced in 1950 thru 1952. The 2333 was produced in 1948 and 1949. The 2333 motorized A unit did not have magnetraction the 2344 did. I have got quite of few of these I really enjoy them all.
@railchief74
6 ай бұрын
@therosejewelrailroad489 I know the complete history of the NYC F3s too
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